New photos of Duchess Kate and Prince George in Mustique

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, shown here in a file photograph taken in 2012, has been enjoying some rest and relaxation with her family in the Caribbean.

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Photographs of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, have surfaced showing her arriving in the Caribbean with her son, Prince George — the first photos we’ve seen of the third-in-line-to-the-throne since his christening last fall.

The photos, which appear exclusively on the cover (and inside) of Hello! magazine, show a smiling Kate carrying little George in her arms. The Duchess, her hair down, is wearing dark sunglasses, a navy-striped long-sleeved t-shirt and dark skinny jeans while George wears a light-coloured onesie and is evidently ready to hit the beach with his striped sun hat.

In their “world exclusive,” Hello! has published the first images of the infant prince since he was last seen in public, at his christening in October.

“William has hinted his son has a healthy appetite and these new pictures, published in Hello! magazine this week, show him to be a bouncing little boy,” observed the Daily Mail, noting that the photograph was captured by a freelance photographer as Kate was “disembarking a British Airways flight in St. Vincent before catching a private jet to the exclusive Caribbean island” of Mustique.

“She was accompanied in her First Class cabin by two bodyguards and her brother, James Middleton,” reports the Daily Mail.

Kate and Prince George reportedly landed some time last week to enjoy time on the tropical island with the Middleton family. Several reports have noted that Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, turned 59 on Friday, so the family had cause for celebration. The Mirror reports that Kate and her son returned home to Prince William, who had remained in Britain due to his studies at the University of Cambridge, on Monday.

“A royal source said today: ‘They enjoyed their break immensely but of course they missed having William with them. He will be very glad to have them home, a week away from your baby is a long time and of course he will have missed little George,’” reported the Mirror.

The Telegraph noted that these were the first “paparazzi” photos of Prince George.

“While the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have taken legal action in the past over “off-duty” photographs to which they have objected, Kensington Palace indicated to Hello! that it would not take action on this occasion if it published the photos,” reported the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner. “Royal sources said Kensington Palace had not objected to the pictures — in which the Duchess is groomed and smiling — because they were taken ‘in a public place, without any harassment or pursuit.’”

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, was quoted in the Mirror saying that this is likely the first of many photos of Prince George that will be taken when the Cambridge family is off duty.

“It’s a public place and people can take photographs, without a legal reason you cannot prevent that,” she said. “They can’t keep him locked up in a private place his entire childhood.”

Prince George’s next trip is expected to be this spring, when he will accompany his parents to Australia and New Zealand— just as Prince William did with his parents in 1983, when he was almost the same age.

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